Just Because...: My New Baby...

Friday, August 10, 2007

My New Baby...

I've been meaning to blog about this but seriously between the 9to5, client issues, starting the new biz and being sick, I am so sorry - it slipped my mind...

So, a couple weeks ago, I paid a visit to the Millenia Mall and this is my new baby..

Not to mention, the wrapping was beyond words...

I've been lusting after the Guccisima line for 2 years (and yes, there's a bag that I'm saving up for). Now - here's the funnier part of it. After I got my lovely "business owner" wallet, I trotted through the mall with my father (he was visiting) and we stopped in Cole Haan and Jimmy Choo. Can I tell you the attention I got once they saw the Gucci shopping bag? I even had one sales lady fawn over me asking me if she could show me the new fall line and eve asked if she could hold my Starbucks. What. The. @*$#*@*@??? She probably thought I would spill the coffee on the shoes *LOL* anywayz - in talking with my friends, it really made me think. I highly doubt I would get the same treatment for a Tar-Jay bag... interesting scientific experiment, methinks....

Somehow that kind of bothers me. A couple years ago, I really really really wanted to buy a Chanel wallet - I wanted to buy one for years and at the time I was in the store I had the funds to do so. I went into the store, waited at the counter to look at the wallets, but some dumb young saleswoman kept chasing after the tourists milling about the store. I waited there for about 15 minutes watching her chase after these people who, by the way, just left the store and didn't buy a damn thing. Granted I had my 9West Bronze Bag that I LOVE and wore jeans, but hot damn people. Needless to say, I didn't get buy the wallet and left in annoyance. Gucci never gives me the same treatment (well the one salesclerk we go to is amazing! Love her!). They've always been attentive and nice and don't drive you insane. Well except for one clerk but he's no longer there. I have had problems at the Coach store as well. Either they follow you like puppydogs and don't let you shop OR you can't get a salesclerk's attention for anything outside of an act of God.

Let me state for the record, while I love the designer lines and such, if I can't afford it at the time, I don't buy it. Period. I'm a stickler for quality over quantity and if a pair of shoes will last me forever and a day or a wallet & bag will last me for years, I'll make the investment. I've had way too many cheapy wallets & bags disintegrate because I give them a work out. But I also take care of what I have. I guess it's a trade off.

I must make this point. Salespeople - word to the wise - don't size people up when they walk in a store. Some of us, like my Bampa (and Bill Cosby) use the theory that they don't dress to shop. I also don't go in looking like a scrub. If we can buy it and we want it, we will. But I won't give a salesperson a commission if they are being an azz - period.

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Posted by Lys :: 7:54 AM :: 3 comments

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Friday, August 10, 2007